Records of States, authenticated, 219.
Register, to obtain a, 111.
Registered vessel, privileges of a, 111.
Registry, certificates of, 111.

permanent, 112.
temporary, 112.
of a vessel, 110.
Regulation of coin, 31.

commencement of, 156.
expiration of, 156.
Press, freedom of, 48.

commerce, 31.
Religion, free exercise of, 242.
Prideaux, Edward, institutes a post-Religious liberty secured, 243.
office, 121.
test not required, 239.
Removal, &c. of the President, 37.
from office, 28.

Primogeniture, law of, abolished, 12.
Privileges of citizens of each State, 41.
members of Congress, 88.
Prize defined, 131.
Prizes, proceeds of, how distributed,
132.

power of, vested in President, 176
Representation, ratio of, 67.
vacancies in, 26.

President, removal of, 37.
salary of, 37.
testimony of, 184.

time to vote for, 21.
voted for, 51.
who eligible for, 37.

Presidential term, 156.

governments, 10.

Public lands, auction of, 227.

QUALIFICATIONS of a representative,

59.

Quarantine defined, 114.

Quartering of soldiers prohibited, 245.
Questions, how decided, 16.
Quorum, 81, 83.

majority of each house, a, 28.

RANDOLPH, Peyton, first president of
Congress, 14.

Ratification, dates of, 23.

of Constitution, 21.
North Carolina, 22.
Rhode Island, 22.

Ratio of representation, 67.
Reconsideration of bills, 93.

disposed of by Congress, 226.
survey of, 227.
ministers, 177.

146.

officers cannot receive presents, Republican form of government, 42.
Resignation, vacancies by, 27.
Restrictions upon Congress, 141.
Senate, 147.

Punishment for treason, 78.

Records, &c authenticated, to receive

faith and credit, 220.
manuscript, 86.

Representative population, 61, 62.
removal of residence of, 60.
seven years a citizen, 26.
Representatives, age of, 26, 59.

apportioned, 26.

first House of, 65.

for each State, 66.

House of, choose Speaker, 27.
must reside, where, 26.

number of, 26, 60.

increased, 65.

28

one for each State, 26, 65.
qualifications for, 59.
term of, 58.

whole number of, 67.
Reprieve defined, 173.
Reprisal defined, 131.

Retrospective, or retroactive laws de-
fined, 151.

Robbery at sea, 1 29.
Rome, census of, 62.
Rule of apportionment, 103.
uniformity, 103.

Rules determined by each house, 83.
for land and naval forces, 32.

President, 37, 171.

Secretary of Navy, 196.

State, 188.

Treasury, 193.
War, 190.

Vice-President, 171.

classification of, 27, 71.
how chosen, 27, 70.
Sergeant-at-arms, duties of, 69.
Servants of ambassador, 180.

SALARY of Judges of Supreme Court, Sessions, confidential legislative, 85.
206.

executive, 85.

governed by Congress, 138.
former, 139.

Secretaries of Interior, list of, 201.

Navy, 197.
State, 189.

Treasury, 194.
War, 192.

Secretary of Interior, 66, 200.
salary, 201.

Navy, duty of, 198.

salary, 196.

State, duties of, 187.

salary, 188.

Schools, land reserved for, 227.
Science and useful arts, 31.

49.

Seamen, invalid, provided for, 135.
Search-warrant, 246.

Sole power of taxation, 13.
Solicitor of the Treasury, 194.

Seas, crime committed on, 216.

Seat of government at Washington, 138. Sovereignty of each State retained, 15.
Speaker of House of Commons, 69.
Representatives, 69, 74.
presiding officer, 69.

Special sessions of Congress, 182
Specific duties, 104.
Specification defined, 126.
Springfield, 191.

Treasury, duties of, 193.

salary, 193.

War, duties of, 190.
salary, 190.

Sonator, vote of, 27.

Senators, act under oath, when, 76.
age of, 27, 72.

elects its president, 74.
not permanent and hereditary, 93.
officers of, how chosen, 74.

of United States, 70.

how composed, 27.

Slave-holding States, 234.
trade a piracy, 130, 141.

Slavery, no nation bound to recognise,

222.

Slaves, portion of, included, 62.
runaway, reclaimed, 222.

Smithsonian Institute, 128.
Soldiers shall not be quartered, where,

restrictions upon, 147.
tries impeachments, 28, 75.
Vice-President, president of, 73.
when powers of suspended, 71.
Senator, qualifications of, 72.

required residence of, 27, 72.
term of citizenship, 27, 72.

State, Department of, 186.
States, admission of new, 41.
cannot declare war, 154.

Sections of land, 227.

Senate changed graduary, 71.

Chief Justice, when president of,76. Suffrage, equal, 235.
elective, 93.

Supreme Court, 207.
judges of, 173.

enter into treaties, 147.
lay taxes, what, 151.
committee of, 155.
223.
eighteen new,
elections held in several, 22.
faith given to public acts, 41.
formation of new, 42.

majority of, not represented, 20.
number of original, 223.

of United States, 208.
Suits at common law, 50.
Survey of public lands, 227.
Surveyor of the port, 109.

on oath or affirmation, 28.

president of, not a member of, 74. | TABLE showing distribution of repro-

who, 27.

sentatives, 68.

Tariff, 106.

Tax defined, 61.
direct, 61.

how laid, 33.

in proportion to census, 144.
indirect, 61.

on migration or importation, 141

commences, 156.
expires, 156.

Territorial governments, 228.

Territories, how erected into States, Turnpikes, laws respecting, 115.

Vice-President, duties of President, | WASHINGTON, 182.

when devolve on, 76, 169.
how elected, 36, 160, 163.
impeached, when, 39.
list of, 185.

office of, why created, 157.
President of Senate, 27, 73, 157.
vacates his chair, when, 74.
voted for, 51.

when entitled to vote, 73.
Virginia and Maryland appoint com-
missioners, 18.

first appoints delegates, 19.
legislature appoints commission-
ers, 18.

and Georgetown, 139.
first President, 22.
his example, 156.

Farewell Address, 279.
took the oath, 22.
War, Congress declares, 131.
declaration of, 32.
Department of, 186.
expenses of, 16.

King of England declares, 131
levying of, 216.
Warehouse, bonded, 106.
Warrants, 246.

of search, 49.

Weights and measures, 31, 120.
William and Mary, act of, 81.
charter granted by, 11.

Vote of President of Senate, 27.
Senator, 27.

Voters qualifications of, 57.

Votes determined by yeas and nays, 94. | Writ defined, 142.
electoral, 22.
Writs of election, 69.

electors, when given, 156.
under Confederation, 71.
Constitution, 71.

YEAS and nays, 85, 86.
entered, when, 29.

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